Engaging Collegial Learning Communities to Achieve Optimal Performance

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Engaging Collegial Learning Communities to Achieve Optimal Performance attended by Karen Loesch, Daniel Boone

Presenters: RoseAnne O'Brien Vojtek, Ph.D. and Robert J. Vojtek, Ph.D.

This workshop presented 10 Motivational Strategies to create efficient (optimal performance) PLCs. It is the presenters' belief that if any one of these keys is missing, a PLC will not be as efficient as it can be.

These 10 Strategies are:
  • Mission
  • Communication
  • Accountability
  • Empowerment
  • Autonomy
  • Competence & Capacity
  • Relationships
  • Interdependence
  • Results

If any one of these is missing, the following may result:
  • low moral
  • indifference
  • distrust
  • blame
  • constraint
  • dependence
  • ineptness
  • lonely, isolated, disconnected
  • lack of cooperation and mutual support
  • ambivalence


A key component of this workshop was role playing. Participants wore headbands labeled-smart, boss, comedian, etc... A task was given to the group and each member had to treat the other members according to the headband worn (participants did not know what "label" he/she had been given). In the end, each person tried to guess what label he/she had worn. Most participants easily identified the labels correctly. This exercise helped to illustrate that we often ignore, succomb, take over, etc... in our PLC based on what label we identify with ourselves and believe others are.


Just Because:
  • You put people into groups
  • Give them time to work, and
  • a task to complete

Doesn't Mean
  • the task is completed
  • they worked cooperatively
  • they were invested in the outcome/results
  • they put forth their best effort
  • their work makes a difference!

More info:
www.optimalperformancemodel.com
rvojtek@edovation.com
vojtek@edovation.com